Sentence examples for when it departed from inspiring English sources

Because of a lottery system used by Northern Alliance officials, his crew was not allowed to board the helicopter with him when it departed for Afghanistan from Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Alan Hicks, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which is in charge of major shipping operations in the New York harbor, said last night that it could not be determined when or if the ship docked in New York or when it departed.

As I was imagining who else I could toss in, Emmett was the first person that occurred to me, and I was immediately more interested in writing about him than in coming up with other new characters and this is the moment that my draft started to become a story, when it departed from the model that had enabled me to begin writing it.

Again, John Maynard Keynes – an admirer of Malthus who believed economics took a wrong turn when it departed from his work – suggested in his famous essay on "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren" (1930) that more than enough wealth could be produced to satisfy human needs, but only if human numbers were stabilised by humane methods of birth control.

The conductor had helped a partially-sighted passenger off the train at Otford in Kent but was left stranded when it departed without him.

Singapore time, had 155 passengers and seven crew members aboard when it departed.

The UK premiere of Pound's Le Testament de Villon (1926) brought to mind Pound's own words: "music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance".

Miliband's push has attracted cross-party support from MPs alarmed at May's indication that the UK is likely to leave the EU's single market when it departs the bloc.

Yes, the events of Kahlo's passionate, painful life are flattened out and crowded together, and no, we don't really understand her any better at the end of the movie, but when it departs from the conventions of realism, "Frida" explodes with color, music and sensuality.

When it departs from conventional meaning is considered non-literal.

Common sense is usually but not invariably right, he contends, and hence reason's task is to present a defense of speculation when it departs from common sense.